{"id":615703,"date":"2026-09-15T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/2026\/09\/615703\/handed-over-a-card-for-fraud-you-could-go-to-jail-the-verkhovna-rada-supported-new-penalties\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:56:33","slug":"handed-over-a-card-for-fraud-you-could-go-to-jail-the-verkhovna-rada-supported-new-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/09\/615703\/handed-over-a-card-for-fraud-you-could-go-to-jail-the-verkhovna-rada-supported-new-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Handed over a card for fraud - you could go to jail: the Verkhovna Rada supported new penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1289\" data-end=\"1505\">On <strong data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1327\">September 15,<\/strong> 2026 the Verkhovna Rada supported in the first reading <a href=\"https:\/\/itd.rada.gov.ua\/billinfo\/Bills\/Card\/70664\">bill No.16013<\/a>, which is intended to strengthen liability for illegal operations with bank cards, accounts and other payment instruments. <strong data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1559\">299 people&#8217;s deputies<\/strong> voted for the document. The bill was submitted by the President of Ukraine, <strong>Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong>, and he designated it as urgent. The document is currently <strong data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1701\">being prepared for the second reading<\/strong>, so the new provisions have not yet come into force.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"2016\">On the eve of the vote, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement <strong>recommended supporting<\/strong> the presidential bill. The committee proposed to reject the alternative draft No.16013-1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2044\" data-end=\"2179\">The bill provides for amendments to the Criminal Code and the introduction of liability for the transfer and circulation of so-called &#8220;drop-accounts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2181\" data-end=\"2203\">In particular, it proposes:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"2205\" data-end=\"2810\">\n<li data-section-id=\"1ngnuum\" data-start=\"2205\" data-end=\"2411\">for the <strong data-start=\"2210\" data-end=\"2371\">transfer, receipt, acquisition or storage of a payment instrument, access data to a card, account or e-wallet with the purpose of use in a crime<\/strong> &#8211; a fine from <strong data-start=\"2384\" data-end=\"2410\">5,100 to 17,000 hryvnias<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1j8eo99\" data-start=\"2412\" data-end=\"2666\">for the <strong data-start=\"2417\" data-end=\"2529\">purchase, storage, sale or transfer of someone else&#8217;s payment instruments or access to them for the commission of a crime<\/strong> &#8211; a fine from <strong data-start=\"2542\" data-end=\"2576\">51 thousand to 170 thousand hryvnias<\/strong>, restriction of liberty for a term of 2 to 5 years or imprisonment for a term of 2 to 6 years;<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"ng8kq3\" data-start=\"2667\" data-end=\"2810\">for the same actions committed <strong data-start=\"2693\" data-end=\"2730\">repeatedly or by an organized group<\/strong> &#8211; from <strong data-start=\"2738\" data-end=\"2771\">5 to 8 years of imprisonment<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2812\" data-end=\"2962\">Separately, it is proposed to strengthen liability for forgery and illegal use of payment documents and means of access to bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3011\" data-end=\"3185\">For the forgery or falsification of payment instructions, payment instruments, access data to accounts, e-wallets or other account information, the following are provided:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"3187\" data-end=\"3368\">\n<li data-section-id=\"1ji3mz9\" data-start=\"3187\" data-end=\"3233\">a fine from <strong data-start=\"3199\" data-end=\"3232\">51 thousand to 85 thousand hryvnias<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1hrj8gh\" data-start=\"3234\" data-end=\"3285\">or restriction of liberty for a term of <strong data-start=\"3268\" data-end=\"3284\">2 to 4 years<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"10h3jda\" data-start=\"3286\" data-end=\"3368\">or imprisonment for the same term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3370\" data-end=\"3657\">For the illegal seizure of payment instruments or access to an account by deceit, theft or other criminally unlawful means, a fine from <strong data-start=\"3536\" data-end=\"3569\">85 thousand to 136 thousand hryvnias<\/strong> or up to <strong data-start=\"3577\" data-end=\"3618\">5 years of restriction of liberty or imprisonment<\/strong> is proposed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3681\" data-end=\"3979\"><strong>&#8220;Drops&#8221;<\/strong> refers to people who, for a fee or other reasons, hand over their bank cards, accounts or access data to third parties. Such accounts can be used by fraudsters to receive and transfer stolen funds, to disguise the origin of the money, or for other criminal operations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3981\" data-end=\"4272\">According to data voiced during the committee&#8217;s consideration of the initiative, in the first half of 2026 alone the State Financial Monitoring Service identified <strong data-start=\"4113\" data-end=\"4136\">more than 12 thousand people<\/strong> associated with such schemes, and the volume of operations involving them exceeded <strong data-start=\"4212\" data-end=\"4233\">18.5 billion hryvnias<\/strong>. At the same time, merely handing a card to a relative will not automatically entail criminal liability. During the bill&#8217;s discussion it was emphasized that the focus is specifically on the transfer of payment instruments <strong data-start=\"4471\" data-end=\"4548\">for the purpose of use in fraud or another criminal offense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-news\">\n<p><strong>Earlier we reported:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/05\/590332\/scammers-wrote-off-the-money-in-the-rada-they-want-the-bank-not-to-shrug-its-shoulders-but-to-return-the-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Did scammers withdraw the money? The Rada wants banks to stop shrugging and return the funds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/06\/594494\/they-posed-as-representatives-of-united24-and-unicef-police-uncovered-a-large-scale-fraud-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Posing as representatives of UNITED24 and UNICEF: police uncovered a large-scale fraud scheme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/2026\/07\/599441\/znal-parol-ot-pryvat24-y-ymel-chuzhuiu-sim-kartu-na-nykolaevshchyne-voennosluzhashchyj-ukral-pochty-55-tysiach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knew the password to \u201cPrivat24\u201d and had someone else&#8217;s SIM card: nearly 55 thousand stolen in Mykolaiv region<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/03\/579598\/a-link-to-assistance-from-a-partner-country-resulted-in-a-series-of-withdrawals-totaling-uah-82-000-for-a-mykolaiv-resident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A link to assistance from a partner country resulted in a Mykolaiv resident being charged 82 thousand hryvnias<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/04\/580487\/one-phone-call-and-103-000-gone-in-mykolaiv-yet-another-woman-fell-for-a-fake-banker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One call \u2014 and minus 103 thousand: in Mykolaiv a woman fell for a fake banker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ukraine, authorities want to introduce a separate criminal liability for the so\u2011called \"drops\" \u2014 people who hand over bank cards, accounts, or access to them for criminal schemes.<br \/>\nCertain actions would be punishable by fines of up to 170,000 hryvnias, and for repeated offenses or actions by an organized group \u2014 up to 8 years of imprisonment.<br \/>\nSo far the bill has been passed only in the first reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12394,"featured_media":615570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":"","tie_post_sub_title":"From a fine to up to 8 years in prison: The Verkhovna Rada cracks down on \"drops\" and the transfer of bank cards"},"categories":[4578],"tags":[4931,4694],"class_list":["post-615703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-fraud","tag-verkhovna-rada"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Handed over a card for fraud - you could go to jail: the Verkhovna Rada supported new penalties - \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430\u0435\u0432\u0430 c\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0434\u043d\u044f<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Ukraine, authorities want to introduce a separate criminal liability for the so\u2011called &quot;drops&quot; \u2014 people who hand over bank cards, accounts, or access to them for criminal schemes. 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